Why should we address people with ‘ji’?

When God first made this world, he took two handfuls of ashes and placed them in a corner and hid himself. These became a man and a woman. God then called the man by name saying “manoo”, and the man replied, “hoo” instead of “Ha ji” (yes life) respectfully, as he should have done. For this reason was everlasting life denied to him, and where he stood, there were his ashes when he died.

This may appear to all of us as a trivial mythological tale speaking of God’s supernatural powers. But what lies underneath is a greater emphasis on respect of mankind- God’s manifestation of self. We respect God to respect ourselves and his divine creation. But people now a days have seem to forgotten this. We use foul language, abuse, destructive weapons, hurtful practices and no wonder what to prove our point. And the outcome of all this is broken hearts and shattered minds. We actually don’t realize that respect for each other forms the basis of any relationship. It fosters faith and enlivens the relationships.

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I am sure God would want all of us to live our lives respectfully.

- The second important aspect of this story is to rejoice in and celebrate the very spirit of life. To greet each other with the metaphor of life is in itself a wonderful phenomenon. If any man addresses another as “Ji” it is accounted to his good. It shares a common belief of everyone in flourishing life. Life in all its inevitable forms and fixtures is the best thing that could have happened in the cosmic creation. And that it continues in various avenues to give it an everlasting texture is yet another miracle. And our suffixing our names with “Ji” is an endorsement of us believing it to be eternal. So it’s highly apreciable that we campaign the use of suffix “Ji” to our addressable.